Monthly Bodacious Garden Tips
November
- Cut back your perennials and roses. Perennials can be cut back to the ground. Knockout roses cut back to about 12-15".
- Apply an anti-desiccant, such as Wilt-Pruf, to your broadleaf evergreens. This helps reduce winter burn, whereby the plant loses too much moisture over winter from the cold winter winds and plant tissue can become damaged.
- Water all new plantings and evergreens thoroughly before dormancy.
- Apply deer repellant.
October
- Apply a granular fertilizer, such as 10-10-10 or 5-10-5, to your shrubs and trees. Always follow package directions.
- Trim your shrubs and trees. Take out any crossing or rubbing branches on your trees. See our Pruning Guidelines
September
- Get your extra large hardy mums, fall planters, pumpkins and more at Rave's!
- Apply grub control to your lawn if you've had a lot of beetle activity over the summer.
- Keep deahheading your butterfly bushes for more blooms.
August
- Plan for fall color. We have lots of perennials and shrubs in bud and bloom for fall.
- Keep deaheading your daylilies. Make sure to cut spent blooms all the way down to the end of the stock.
- Watch for powdery mildew on roses and shrubs. Spray with a rose and flower fungicide.
July
- Now is the time when powdery mildew begins to set in on your perennials and shrubs, particularly bee balm, lilac, roses, and even annuals. Treat with a rose and flower fungicide.
- From now on and through the rest of the year it is best to use a liquid based fertilizer, such at Miracle-Gro, for your perennials, annuals, and hanging baskets.
- On your reblooming daylilies, make sure to cut spent blooms all the way down to the stock.
June
- Liquid feed your annuals, perennials, and hanging baskets with Miracle-Gro. And never let your flowering hanging baskets dry out.
- Prune out any dead, diseased, or dying branches. This will trigger your shrub or tree to grow.
- Weed and feed your lawn before the weather becomes too hot.
- Deadhead your Knockout Roses, Salvia, Coreopsis, and many other perennials to get more blooms. Learn all about deadheading here.
May
- Prune out any dead, diseased, or dying branches from your shrubs and trees. This will trigger your shrub or tree to grow.
- Spray insect and disease control on your roses and ornamentals.
April
- Apply a slow-release fertilizer to all of your shrubs and trees. We recommend using 10-10-10 or 10-20-20.
- Get out and get those grasses and perennials cut back!